We may be living a Heart of Darkness but Trump is no Kurtz.
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Tag Archives: DJT
Iran: Heart of Darkness Redux?
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "White Man's Burden", Colonialism, Edward Said, Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad, Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, She Leave a comment
Putin as Puppet-Master
Grimké’s “Puppet-Master” can be applied to Putin pulling DJT’s strings.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "Harlot's House", "Puppet-Master", Angelina Weld Grimké, Hillary Clinton, Oscar Wilde, Vladimir Putin Leave a comment
Zuckerberg, Grendel, and the Cool Kids’ Table
Sorkin says the Zuckerberg (and Trump) are perpetually angry from having been denied admission to the cool kids’ table. Grendel is the same.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Aaron Sorkin, Beowulf, Mark Zuckerberg, resentment, Social Reckoning Comments closed
The Fine Balance between Hope and Despair
Mistry’s “Fine Balance,” which describes tyranny in India in 1975 and 1984, can be applied to DJT’s America in unsettling ways.
When Threatened, Power Elites Go Ballistic
To what extent will DJT and MAGA go to to maintain power? Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance shows the brutality elites are capable of when threatened.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged 2026 election, David Frum, electoral violence, Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry Comments closed
Kipling on How to Be a Free People
Revisiting The Jungle Books while watch Trump kowtow to dictators has me examining the Wolf Pack’s claims to “a free people” while kowtowing to Shere Khan.
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Rereading Narnia in the Age of Trump
Rereading Lewis’s Horse and His Boy in the age of Trump has be wondering if we’re closer to Calormen than Narnia.
Blake’s Celebration of the American Revolution
in “America: A Prophecy,” Blake captures the revolutionary energies that overcame George III. We need a return to those energies.
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